BUDAPEST, Dec 3 (Reuters) - One of the main organisers of
the Nov. 13 Paris attacks passed through Budapest beforehand,
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on
Thursday.

The man travelled through Budapest's eastern railway
station, Janos Lazar told reporters, without naming him or
saying exactly when he visited the city.

"I can confirm that ... based on current information of the
Hungarian secret services, one of the chief organisers of the
Paris attack ... had been in Budapest," he added.

Investigators across Europe are piecing together exactly who
did what and when in the attacks that killed 130 people in bars,
restaurants, a football stadium and concert hall no Nov. 13.

They have launched a hunt to find Salah Abdeslam who is
suspected of being the eighth attacker mentioned by Islamic
State when it claimed responsibility. Seven other attackers died
in the assault.

Another, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to have travelled
through eastern Europe on his way to France, was killed in a
police raid on a flat in north Paris the following week.

A French judicial source said on Wednesday that Abdeslam had
gone to Hungary in September to pick up two men that
investigators could have been two members of the team involved
in the attacks.

The source said Abdeslam was stopped in a car rented in
Belgium by police on the Austrian border before entering
Hungary.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than, Gergely Szakacs and Gerard Bon;
writing by John Irish; Editing by Andrew Callus)